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John Wilkins is an eternal student, who thinks philosophy of biology is at least as interesting as politics or sport and twice as important. He has a PhD from the University of Melbourne and worked at the University of Queensland, in Australia, before taking up a research fellowship at the University of Sydney. After a varied career, involving factories, gardening, civil service, publishing, graphics, public relations but not, unfortunately for the CV, driving a truck, John finally completed his thesis on species concepts in 2004, which he has worked into two books.

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December 30, 2006

Atheism and agnosticism... again

Category: Creationism

Brent Rasmussen, at Unscrewing the Inscrutable, has a nice smackdown of the atheism-intolerance of Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo, Professor of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Brooklyn College and Distinguished Scholar of the City University of New York, with which...

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December 25, 2006

The meaning of today

Category: Humor

For those of you still in December 25, a short reminder of the meaning of this holiday. There was an individual who was born today, many years ago. His life and work changed the world. He inspired millions of...

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Epicurus, Moran, and chance

Category: Evolution

Larry Moran, at Sandwalk, has argued that evolution is indeed a matter of chance. It is, he thinks, something that atheism requires. This is an interesting issue, one that has deep roots, both in the role of chance explanations...

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December 24, 2006

God, evolution and variation

Category: Creationism

It's a season, so I am told, that has something to do with religion. We celebrate the birth of commodity capitalism, or something. So I thought I would combine my favourite issues - philosophy, religion and evolution. It's all...

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December 23, 2006

Smallest microbes ever

Category: Evolution

My mate Marc Buhler noticed this one: This week's issue of Science magazine has an article that is the subject of a story (pasted below the fold) from the NY Times....

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December 21, 2006

Logic Chopraing

Category: Philosophy of Science

Sayeth the Deepak Oracle: A number of evolutionary biologists are attempting to create a more holistic integral view of evolution that includes both objective and subjective dimensions of reality. I don't claim to know what "reality" is, but I'm pretty...

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December 20, 2006

The real reason for the war...

Category: Politics

George Bush wants a bigger military. Cynical as I am about the claims of the "military-industrial complex" of a generation ago, it really does look like the underlying motivation for the past decade or so has been to increase the...

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On a clear day, you can see the flaws in Windows

Category: Humor

Once, in a previous incarnation (where I was not so furry, fat and albinoish), I ruled a graphics department. We had the IT staff try to convince us to go Windows about every six months instead of Mac, for about...

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December 19, 2006

Reason defeated by politics and religion in Libya

Category: Politics

As PZ McMyers notes, the Libyan court has condemned to death five nurses and a doctor for infecting children with AIDS deliberately as part of an experiment, despite the clear scientific evidence that the real cause was pre-existing strains of...

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December 18, 2006

Ever wondered about the neighbours?

Category: General Science

I stumbled on this amazingly useful website just now, when trying to work out who our nearest extragalactic neighbours were (and what they were getting up to - it seems we are the cause of a lot of domestic disputes)....

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